The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has distributed approximately $17 million in settlement payments to 629 ...

Authorities in Indonesia 's tourist island of Bali foiled an attempt last week to illegally trade 21 protected green sea ...

EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A crude oil spill that began with a ruptured pipeline in East Los Angeles has now spread miles down the L.A. River, prompting an extensive multi-agency cleanup effort and ...

Authorities are preparing for a “tank actively in crisis” after responding to an industrial chemical leak in Garden Grove, California. An estimated 40,000 people are impacted in the evacuation area, ...

Raleigh water crews responded to a sewage spill near the Brier Creek area that caused more than 1.1 million gallons of waste to be released. The city said the spill was a result of a temporary pipe ...

Iran’s top environmental official said on Tuesday that a suspected oil spill in the Gulf near Iran’s Kharg Island was likely caused by a tanker dumping waste water and not a leak from oil facilities.

Oil is oozing through the ocean near Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz, according to satellite photos released Friday, raising questions about the state of Iran’s central energy production hub ...

An oil spill has contaminated 933 kilometers (about 580 miles) of shoreline along the western Gulf of Mexico, impacting the Mexican states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Campeche and Tabasco in eastern ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A massive oil spill spreading hundreds of miles has devastated Mexico’s Veracruz fishing industry during Holy Week ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in early March spread more than 373 miles, including to seven nature reserves, and originated from a vessel yet to be identified and two “natural ...

Highway 97 is on track to reopen late Tuesday night after a big rig leaked 60 gallons of concentrated and extremely toxic herbicide onto the highway in Dorris, north of Weed. Traffic should resume in ...

BACK TO SOME BREAKING NEWS WE’RE FOLLOWING. HAZMAT CREWS ARE RESPONDING TO A CHEMICAL SPILL IN YORK COUNTY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SAYS IT HAPPENED THIS MORNING AT SOPHOMORE SOLAR INC. IN FORT MILL.